iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Japanese Knives I ordered new knives because I have a drawer full of dull knives. I opened one up and cut my finger. They work.

110

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I would much rather be outside. With weeks of triple digits, I water in the morning and stay inside the rest of the day. I decided to pickle my meager onion crop for the holidays. Tam jalapeños next. I’ve been gardening for so long, I wouldn’t know what to do in summer.

030

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I caught a cat. I caught a cat.

000

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was pushing my grocery cart to the place where they go and a lady asked me if I was alright. I am getting old but did I look that bad?

000

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Some kind of bee on my sunflowers. It’s been in the triple digits. I can only go outside in the morning or late evening. Love these.

020

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I know everyone thinks their grandkids are wonderful, but this one is the sweetest boy on earth. I asked him once what made him such a great kid and he said, “I just had love in my heart.” He was 10 when he said that. He’s a senior this fall and a big life to come. Love Oliver!

110

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I gave this tiny boy a bath today and he screamed like a banshee. Sorry Timmy.

000

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

You’ve probably had dogs barking while you try to sleep at night. Me, I have bullfrogs. When one stops, another croaks back. It’s like little tubas in my bedroom.

010

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A critter next to my flower bed. It’s alive. What???

000

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Raised bed gardening. The plants are doing well. Even planted a Ranier cherry in a pot. We’ll see how it grows.

010

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Had some welcome visitors today. They grow up so fast.

110

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Just bought a new white peach tree. Nothing more flavorful than this.

030

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Said pecan pie. It’s always pi day.

120

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This old nanny goat has another summer left in her. I found lettuce and onion sets to plant.

020

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Someone laid an egg. She wants me to feed her and let her swim in my goldfish pond. So much work to do. I’m getting too old to work my gardens.

120

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

So what did I do with my Buddha’s Hand citron? Flavored some vodka with it. Nothing on earth smells better than this lemon.

010

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The smell of heaven. I grow Buddha’s hand citron and its sweet, floral scent is like no other earthly smell. Order a plant and you will see. My kitchen is filled with it’s smell.

010

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Haven’t made a chess pie in a long time. I am making pecan pie and a tart cherry pie for Thanksgiving dinner. I just might make one of these too.

000

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I would have liked Truman. I tend to like unlikeable people. Sagittarius to the bone.

030

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Never hit anyone. Selling off antiques on eBay and decided to sell this old fortune teller’s card. So, would you ever club someone? I decided I would if I caught someone mistreating an animal.

010

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

First frost and had to scramble to get all of my citrus trees up. I have a closet built into the side of my house where they spend the winter with grow lights. The mandarins broke the stem by too many fruits. The Ponderosa lemon got in the way. Some thorns are 4” long and plants too big. Oh well.

020

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I saw a special about a southern chef who has a restaurant and is famous. I can’t remember her name. A story she told was about middlins, the broken, leftover pieces of rice slaves would gather to eat. I was so surprised to see these in Fresh Market the other day.

010

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

First rain in more than thirty days. This fall has been unusually hot.

020

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Maypop, i.e. wild passion flower. I never knew. They are growing in my lower garden. Read up on them. Native Americans ate them and supposedly the fruit tastes like expensive passion fruit from the store. Since I couldn’t garden this summer in the beds next to the lake, I guess some seeds started.

130

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

If the other side of the universe hears me and makes my dreams come true, why has my summer sucked so bad? Maybe this container is empty.

010

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

She asked for some pecans this morning.

050

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Tried all summer to lure hummingbirds to my feeder. Finally got one.

010

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The destroyer of tomatoes. They are hard to spot. They freeze and are camouflaged. This one is getting pitched down into the lower yard. It is lucky I don’t throw it in the lake.

031

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Haven’t baked any bread lately. This was a cocoa, dried cherry loaf inspired of course by none other than the GOAT, Seamus Blackley.

031

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Never saw it again after I put it in the goldfish pond.

010

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

How can someone, who hasn’t got time to work in her garden, fall and break her pelvis in three places? I can’t just let it go. I have so much to do!

140

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

We own acreage on a mountain that had two old log cabins from pioneer days. They say you can find the front by finding flowers. This is an old one they brought with them from Europe. It’s amazing they made it across the Red River to Indian territory.

010

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

My oldest granddaughter is seventeen. I bought her Billie Eilish tickets. She asked who my favorite concert was. Frank Zappa. “Who’s that?”😳

020

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

A goose with a hurt foot called me till I went out to feed it. Lo and behold, a pigeon I’ve been trying to commune with for two weeks, was there and I fed it too. It flew up on my head and I got in a tickle. Made my summer. We don’t have them here and it hangs with the ducks.

100

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Weenies with oregano and strawberries.

010

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My three littles just taking a walk and not even scared of Bigfoot. Seems not a thespian in the group. Some of the grandkids are going to the farm this weekend to fish and look around.

000

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I love/live for interesting factoids.

000

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Raindrops on roses. Planted these last summer. They smell heavenly. I’m not religious, but excited for the white smoke at the Vatican.

010

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My middle daughter is following in my footsteps. She cooks and bakes, has chickens and is now starting to can. She made pickled redbuds. Yes, the berries from a redbud tree. I have never heard of this in my decades of canning. Learn something new everyday.

030

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Woke up to reflections from the lake. I sleep with curtains open. Don’t like it dark. My sister slept with eye covers and pitch black. I like the play of light across the back of house.

021

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Turtles waiting for food. Gander goes hurriedly to see what his lady goose is fussing about. She’s standing over her nest hooting.

010

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This lemon-sized strawberry is probably the last one for a time. They came from California, but wonder who picked them? I know we’ll be getting hit with dump’s tariffs. I’m going to plant the green tops to see if they root.

000

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I’m late but got it done. Juiced the oranges and lemons. Citrus is easy to grow but in zone 7, it has to go up in winter (lower than 40). My citrus is my pride and joy. Grow it in pots.

040

EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The lake finally melted yesterday. This red tailed hawk has been in the cottonwood tree out back, but decided to come to the porch. That’s where all the birds come to eat. He did not catch one. #hawks #lakes #winter

150